_________________"The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other... involves orcs." - Kung Fu Monkey

Really, this wouldn't at all be possible without the massive volumes of arrogance, ineptitude and criminality of the George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of their crew.

Grover Nordquist once said he wanted government shrunk down to a small enough size that it could be drowned in a bathtub. Thankfully, this lot has so managed to mismanage and mislead that they've driven Republicans and conversatives into the wilderness (once again), hopefully to drown for good.

Really, this wouldn't at all be possible without the massive volumes of arrogance, ineptitude and criminality of the George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of their crew.

Grover Nordquist once said he wanted government shrunk down to a small enough size that it could be drowned in a bathtub. Thankfully, this lot has so managed to mismanage and mislead that they've driven Republicans and conversatives into the wilderness (once again), hopefully to drown for good.

Good fucking riddance.

Are you ever happy?

What does Grover Nordquist have to do with anything? Did the gov't shrink under GWB? No the size of gov't and more importantly (for the conversation, not for the good of the country) regulation increased, regardless of what the left said in the campaign.

Do you sit in your house and write screeds about George Bush? He isn't even President any more. How long until you move on?

You couldn't even show the departing President dignity on his last day in office, regardless of your disagreements with his policies. That is so sad.

My guess is this thread was started so people could talk about their joy over the inauguration. Feel free to join in. I thought it was a very good speech.

_________________"The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other... involves orcs." - Kung Fu Monkey

There are plenty future days for criticism of all Presidents past as well as the new President. I would imagine today would be a day to refrain from criticizing ex-President Bush or President Obama. I would consider it showing a little dignity and class, but that's just my opinion.

I'm excited to see what happens now. Even though I voted for the former Prisoner of War, the new President is my President too. Regarding today's speech, I was underwhelmed. His speech about race earlier this year and his victory speech were much better.

Stepford, I feel bad for you, you are seething with so much bigotry and hatred for your fellow man that you seem incapable of experiencing joy or even mild amusement.

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know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

_________________And to answer you question, pal, why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to. They asked me for a favor. I said the real favor, follow my advice and fire your fucking ass because a loser is a loser.

_________________And to answer you question, pal, why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to. They asked me for a favor. I said the real favor, follow my advice and fire your fucking ass because a loser is a loser.

_________________And to answer you question, pal, why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to. They asked me for a favor. I said the real favor, follow my advice and fire your fucking ass because a loser is a loser.

Beautiful speech. Inspiring, eloquent, scathing, and hopeful. Seeing the massive assembly of people was awe-inspiring. A new era. I'm thankful to be witnessing such an important and, finally, positive moment in history. It sure has been a bleak decade thus far.

Good riddance to the reptiles. Here's to hoping that warm blood can survive in Washington.

_________________"The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other... involves orcs." - Kung Fu Monkey

I don’t think I’ve ever been entirely proud to be part of our democratic experiment, and for much of the last eight years I've spent a lot of time being outright embarrassed by it, but this is amazing, the speech, the benediction, the millions of people standing in freezing weather for nine hours to witness a thirty minute ceremony, today I am entirely proud of us as a people. Today it feels like we can begin to put the long dark days of our past to bed and actually move forward together.